14. Shared responsibility and accountability
School leadership teams ensure that all teachers understand they are responsible and accountable for teaching literacy and numeracy and that sustaining success for every student is the responsibility of all teachers. All can articulate the literacy and numeracy priorities of their school/college. The priorities of the classroom, school, region and Office are aligned and focussed.
All stakeholders own the urgency for all students' increased achievement.
- Triangulation of data informs the professional learning needed in the school, Through co-construction of data walls and case management meetings staff get to know all learners' progress
- Ongoing use of formative data provides descriptive feedback for students, differentiates instruction, and impacts the selection of resources
- The region disaggregates and delivers data to administrators’ and teachers’ desktops to put individual faces on the data and assists in the development of improvement plans to collaboratively take action
- Administrators and teachers can name at-risk students individually and clearly articulate what they are doing for each one
- School staffs work on finding results of action research question based on schools’ data
- Schools host their own Literacy Learning Fairs for parents and the community
- School may participate in regional Literacy Learning Fairs to share their professional learning journey
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The school has found ways to build a school-wide, professional team of highly able teachers, including teachers who take an active leadership role beyond the classroom. Strong procedures are in place to encourage a school-wide shared responsibility for student learning and success and to encourage the development of a culture of continuous professional improvement that includes classroom based learning, mentoring and coaching arrangements.